At NASA Ames Research Center, space scientist Farid Salama is taking data collected from their Cassini mission to Saturn's moon Titan and recreating the conditions here on Earth in NASA's simulation chamber. Through his research, Salama is hoping to figure out if primitive live was possible on T... Read more...
Are these people f*cking serious? Zombies now? Not only is the world gonna end but now There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you... Read more...
NASA scientists recently discovered an underground dry ice lake containing more carbon dioxide than originally thought. The trapped carbon dioxide is thought to have come from the planet’s atmosphere earlier in its history when it was conducive for life on Mars to exist. “It really is ... Read more...
We are not alone in the universe -- and alien life forms may have a lot more in common with life on Earth than we had previously thought. That's the stunning conclusion one NASA scientist has come to, releasing his groundbreaking revelations in a new study in the March edition of the Journal ... Read more...
There's a giant planet right here, hiding in our Solar System. One that nobody has ever seen, even while it is four times larger than Jupiter and has rings and moons orbiting it. At least, that's what two astrophysicists say. The name of the planet is Tyche. The scientists are John Matese and... Read more...
A volcano made famous in a James Bond movie continues its eruption on the island of Kyushu in Japan. Shimnoe-dake, part of a larger group of 20 volcanoes known as Kirishima, began its largest eruption in more than 50 years on Wednesday. Mount Shimnoe (or Shimnoe-dake for Shimnoe Peak) sprang... Read more...
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“The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exits” — J. Edgar Hoover The weather forces of Earth are volatile indeed. Even in the human era we have passed through cataclysmic times of both fire and ice, destruction and rebir... Read more...
In a not too distant future, on a space station not too far away, there will be a 300-pound human-like robot to assist astronauts on space missions. And it will be a GM. At least that's the plan for Robonaut 2, or R2, a space station robot developed by NASA and General Motors Corp. R2 is ... Read more...